Improved urn-stand



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CHARLES EQGooDHUE; or MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

Lettersfatent No. 95,104, dated Sqitember 21, 1869, v

IMPRoveD URN-STAND.

The Schedule referred 1go-:in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'itfma/y concern: Be itknown that I, CHARLES EL GOODHUE, of Malden, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvenients in Urinstands; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full 4and exact description thereof, reference being `had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists `in making a port-able urn-stand, the shelf of which is so hung upon pivotsthat theurn standing upon it `may be easily tipped when desired, and yet finds Afirm support while resting upon the stand.

lo enable others skilled in the art to make and use' my invention, I will proceed toset forth its construction and use. l

The drawings represent,inperspeotive, one form of- `my invention. Y f

` A B A' represent the frameof the stand.

C O' are cross-bars to give additional strength and support to the frame. i

D is a disk, hung upon twopivots d d is a guard upon the. front edge of the disk, which serves to prevent the urn, tea, or coffee-pot, which is placed upon it, from being set so far over that the greater part of the weight should be in front of a line i conneetingthe pivots P P', in which `case the u rn, tea,

or coffee-pot would tip over, from its own weight.

The pivots l P are set a little in front of Va line dra-wu through the centre.l The.- urn will rest on the pivots and upon the back bar of the frame of the. stand.

I am aware that coffee and tea-urns have been made with journals attached, and hung in frames so that they could be tilted, and also that a stand has been made having its bottom hinged at one edge; but these.

are objectionable, the first, because the urn and stand are united, and a lamp has to be used for heating the contents; the latter, because rthe hinge, being at onev edge, requires the vessel to be secured to it in some way, in order to raise the bottom with the urn, in tipping the latter, -and requires nearly as much power to tip it a'sit would to lift it bodily. By my method of pivoting the bottom, the weight is very nearly balanced` thereon, and can therefore be 'tipped or tilted with very little ei'ort, and at the same time is prevented from upsetting by having the weight preponderate 'slightly on one side, as described, and thusl produce an implement that is admirably adapted to the purpose'intcnded.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim, is-

A stand for coiiee-pots and similar vessels, consisting of the frame A and the tilting bottomV D, provided with thc ledgell, pivoted eccentrically, and arranged to rest on the bar or stop C, substantially as shown and described. y

GHAS. E. GOODHUE.

Witnesses Sn'rn B. Epson, A. HUN BERRY. 

